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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154998503321

Titolo

Subversion and scurrility : popular discourse in Europe from 1500 to the present / / edited by dermot Cavanagh and Tim Kirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-89704-7

1-315-24210-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

Cavanaghdermot <1963->

KirkTim <1958->

Disciplina

302.2094

Soggetti

Satire, English - History and criticism

Political satire, English - History and criticism

Popular culture - Great Britain - History

Popular culture - Europe - History

Satire - History and criticism

Invective in literature

Politics and literature

Politics in literature

Invective

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing.

Papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Sins of the mouth : signs of subversion in medieval English cycle plays / Lynn Forest-Hill -- 2. Skelton and scurrility / dermot Cavanagh -- 3. Rumours and risings : plebeian insurrection and the circulation of subversive discourse around 1597 / Nick Cox -- 4. The verse libel : popular satire in early modern England / Andrew McRae -- 5. To 'scourge the arse / Jove's marrow so had wasted' : scurrility and the subversion of sodomy / James Knowles -- 6. Anticlerical slander in the English Civil War : John White's First century of scandalous and malignant priests / James Rigney -- 7. His praeludiary weapons : mocking Colonel Hewson before and after the Restoration / Neil Durkin



-- 8. Innuendo and inheritance : strategies of scurrility in medieval and Renaissance Venice / Alexander Cowan -- 9. The last Austrian-Turkish war (1788-91) and public opinion in Vienna / Gerhard Ammerer -- 10 Surrealist blasphemy / Malcolm Gee -- 11. The policing of popular opinion in Nazi Germany / Tim Kirk -- 12. Subversion and squirrility in Irvine Welsh's shorter fiction / Willy Maley.